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March 19, 2010

EPA to Probe How Fracking Impacts Water Supplies
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The EPA meanwhile has announced it will conduct a national study on how
the natural gas drilling practice known as hydraulic fracturing is
affecting the nation’s water supplies. The $1.9 million study will be
carried out over two years. The study comes amidst a push by natural gas
companies to expand fracking, including a proposal to drill inside the
Marcellus Shale watershed, which supplies drinking water to millions of
people in New York and other Northeast states.



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